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and Hornton we find only Conchites or Cockle-iloneS, and thofe 

 flriated (if at all) from fide to fide tranfverfly, as in 7a. 4. F/gj 

 7, 8. And fo at Glympon only Cockle- Hones, but lineated the con- 

 trary way from the commiffure to the rim, as in Fig. 6. of the fame 

 Tab. On Copley -common we find nothing but Oftracitcs, fuch as 

 mTab. 4. Fig. 19. And in the Gravel-pits of St. Clements a mix- 8 

 ture of fuch Oyfler-ftones, and (to which 1 believe it will be hard 

 to adapt zfiell-/ifij the ftone Bekmnites. The Nephiri or Lapis 

 MegaticmiX. Langley, is a bed of nothing but Cockles as fmall as 

 peafe - and that at Charlton the fame, Only the Cockles are fom^ 

 what bigger. So that thefe beds of Cockle-ftones (if they muft 

 needs have been Jhell-fifi) feem rather to have been their breeds 

 ing places, where they had aboad for fome confiderable time 

 (especially where we find them of feveral cizes) than brought hi- 

 ther in the flood in the time of Noah , which remained on the 

 Earth but forty natural days, too fmall a time for fo many (hell-fifii 

 fo difperfed, as they muft be prefumed to be by fo violent a mo- 

 tion , to get together and fequefter themfelves from all o- 

 ther company, and fet them down, each fort, in a convenient 

 ftation. 



1 00. And fecondly, that they fhould be brought by any other 

 flood is altogether as unlikely, fince we have no other floods de- 

 liver'd down to us, but the Ogygidn and Deucalionian^ which were 

 reftrained within Greece. But fuppofe all that can be defired by 

 the adverfe party, that there Was fomtime or other a National 

 flood here in England, that did for fome hundreds of years cover 

 the face of the Land, of which there is no Record deliver'd to 

 pofterity ; yet that it fhould cover the higheft Hills, or if it did, 

 that it fhould force the Jhells to their tops, which are weighty 

 and rather affeft the lowcft places, is a conceffion as hard to be 

 granted, as that the Mountains (where fuch ftones as refemble 

 them are now found) were heretofore low places and fince raifed 

 by Earth-quakes ' a thing by no means to be believed of our Nor- 

 thern parts, where the Earth -quakes we have at any time are fo 

 inconfiderable, that they fcarce fomtimes are perceived, much 

 lefsaffrightenus ; unlefswe fhall groundlefly grant, that in the 

 infancy of the World the Earth fuffered moreconcuffions, and con* 

 fequently more mutations in its fuperficies, than it has done ever 

 fince the Records of time. 



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